Your Presents Is Appreciated The sun poking through the clouds is a welcome gift from the heavens, and a clutch of bicycles leans against the beer patio fence for the first time in eons. Inside, a trio of cyclists unwinds after making the ride from...
Finding ‘Gold’ in the Gray, Or, Drinkin’ With Lincoln Rain. Miserable, cold, plans-crushing, muck-making rain, falling in silvery sheets all week. Not much to do on a day like this, except grab some friends and find a warm, dry place to hang. Such as Captain Lawrence. Ryan O’Keefe...
Robust Reviews For Coffee Brews It is the time of the year for getting together with old friends, as a gang of guys from Ardsley is doing at Captain Lawrence. They’ve known each other since kindergarten, and have opted to spend the frigid day warming themselves...
The Captain’s Log: A Thanksgiving Day Monster, and We Don’t Mean Turducken The leaves are all but down, the cold weather is very definitely upon us, and the tap lineup at Captain Lawrence has shifted to heartier brews. The Frost Monster is back! Hibernating all summer,...
Getting Out While the Getting’s Good A group of six men is gathered around a Samsung phone resting on a barrel on the Captain Lawrence patio. They’re watching the Jets. The screen goes blank. “Please deposit 25 cents for the next minute,” jokes one of them in...
Winter is Coming That wind. That brutal All Souls Day wind—the howling harbinger of winter—daring you to venture outside, more likely encouraging you to stay in and watch the miserable Jets. The Captain Lawrence patio was as lonely as a costume shop the day after Halloween, the bocce...
All Hail All Hallows! The “Halloween Apocalypse” party flyers are up at Captain Lawrence, and conversations about pale ales and kolsches in the tasting room mix with talk of candy and costumes. We may think of Halloween as a kid’s holiday, but the spirit remains...
Enjoy Fall Before It Gose Before fall was to take a sharp turn toward wintry temps, it was a great day for enjoying the autumnal charms on the Captain Lawrence patio. With a name that translates to “the beer garden”…well, minus the “beer”…Michelle Desjardin of White...
Tappan Zee Keg For a Good Cause There it stood, in the middle of the tasting room bar—a chubby 10-gallon keg of the special Captain Lawrence-Peekskill Brewery collaboration on behalf of the Hudson River environmental watchdogs known as Riverkeeper. Captain Lawrence tapped the barrel as part...
The Captain’s Log The Captain is ready for his television debut—the crew from Beer Geeks was in Elmsford at the end of August, filming scenes at Captain Lawrence, speaking with owner Scott Vaccaro and watching as Scott brewed up a batch of the peach-flavored Flaming Fury...